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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] x86 fix
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:00:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111013090054.GA22473@elte.hu> (raw)

Linus,

Please pull the latest x86-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://tesla.tglx.de/git/linux-2.6-tip.git x86-urgent-for-linus

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Adrian Bunk (1):
      x86: Default to vsyscall=native for now


 Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    7 ++++---
 arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c       |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 854ed5ca..d6e6724 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2706,10 +2706,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 			functions are at fixed addresses, they make nice
 			targets for exploits that can control RIP.
 
-			emulate     [default] Vsyscalls turn into traps and are
-			            emulated reasonably safely.
+			emulate     Vsyscalls turn into traps and are emulated
+			            reasonably safely.
 
-			native      Vsyscalls are native syscall instructions.
+			native      [default] Vsyscalls are native syscall
+			            instructions.
 			            This is a little bit faster than trapping
 			            and makes a few dynamic recompilers work
 			            better than they would in emulation mode.
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
index 18ae83d..b56c65de 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vsyscall_64.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ DEFINE_VVAR(struct vsyscall_gtod_data, vsyscall_gtod_data) =
 	.lock = __SEQLOCK_UNLOCKED(__vsyscall_gtod_data.lock),
 };
 
-static enum { EMULATE, NATIVE, NONE } vsyscall_mode = EMULATE;
+static enum { EMULATE, NATIVE, NONE } vsyscall_mode = NATIVE;
 
 static int __init vsyscall_setup(char *str)
 {

             reply	other threads:[~2011-10-13  9:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-13  9:00 Ingo Molnar [this message]
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2023-09-02 10:24 [GIT PULL] x86 fix Ingo Molnar
2023-09-02 16:13 ` pr-tracker-bot
2022-08-13 10:40 Ingo Molnar
2022-08-13 21:48 ` pr-tracker-bot
2020-08-02 19:17 Ingo Molnar
2020-08-02 20:15 ` pr-tracker-bot
2020-04-02  9:51 Ingo Molnar
2020-04-02 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-02 22:45 ` pr-tracker-bot
2020-03-24  9:06 Ingo Molnar
2020-03-24 17:15 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-12-17 11:58 Ingo Molnar
2019-12-17 19:20 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-09-28 12:42 Ingo Molnar
2019-09-28 20:50 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-07-14 11:32 Ingo Molnar
2019-07-14 18:45 ` pr-tracker-bot
2019-05-05 11:00 Ingo Molnar
2019-05-05 22:10 ` pr-tracker-bot
2018-07-21 12:55 Ingo Molnar
2016-07-25 15:54 Ingo Molnar
2015-05-15  7:26 Ingo Molnar
2015-03-28 13:58 Ingo Molnar
2015-02-06 18:41 Ingo Molnar
2014-12-19 12:16 Ingo Molnar
2014-04-19 10:58 Ingo Molnar
2013-11-19 15:48 Ingo Molnar
2013-09-28 18:23 Ingo Molnar
2013-07-10 14:32 Ingo Molnar
2012-10-23 11:06 Ingo Molnar
2012-10-23 15:00 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-10-23 15:17   ` Borislav Petkov
2011-12-20 19:30 Ingo Molnar
2011-09-30 18:22 Ingo Molnar
2011-09-30 18:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2011-09-30 19:44 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-07-23  8:43 Ingo Molnar
2011-02-07 15:03 Ingo Molnar
2010-12-28 22:27 Ingo Molnar
2010-12-23 13:00 Ingo Molnar
2010-12-08  7:51 Ingo Molnar
2010-10-30 18:26 Ingo Molnar
2009-09-27  8:02 Ingo Molnar
2009-08-10 18:08 Ingo Molnar
2009-06-29  8:36 Ingo Molnar
2009-03-10 18:25 [git pull] " Ingo Molnar
2009-02-28 13:02 i915 needs pgprot_writecombine() and is_io_mapping_posible() Theodore Ts'o
2009-02-28 13:34 ` [git pull] x86 fix Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13  1:17 Ingo Molnar
2008-11-07 16:30 Ingo Molnar
2008-10-04 14:55 Ingo Molnar
2008-07-01 19:57 Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 19:47 Ingo Molnar
2008-04-26 20:15 ` Harvey Harrison

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